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Former Senior USTR, OIRA, and Commerce Official Joins Venable’s International Trade Practice in Washington

Lawyers / March 21, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Experienced trade lawyer and policy advisor in two administrations; focused on strengthening U.S. port and supply chain logistics and infrastructure, trade negotiations, domestic regulation, standards, and other economic policy matters Washington, DC (March 21, 2017) – Venable LLP announced today that Jeff Weiss has joined the firm’s International Trade and Logistics practice as a […]

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Operator of Unlawful Bitcoin Exchange Found Guilty of Fraud and Bribery

Lawyers / March 19, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TREVON GROSS, the former Chairman and CEO of Helping Other People Excel Federal Credit Union (“HOPE FCU”), located in Lakewood, New Jersey, and YURI LEBEDEV, a former member of HOPE FCU’s Board of Directors and

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Junior Criminal Lawyers Upset Over UK Criminal Pay Rate Changes

Lawyers, UK Law / March 14, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] UK junior lawyers have expressed their serious concern over proposed pay rates to be made at criminal court level by the Ministry of Justice. A Ministry consultation into pay rates has posed a serious threat to young lawyers, the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) have said in a statement (shown below). The fear is that

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Software to “Encode the Mindset” of Lawyers

Australia, Law Firm Technology, Law Firms / March 13, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A “prescriptive analytics” test with leading Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin is being developed with a software provider to help predict legal risk based on both data and the expertise of leading lawyers. The software provider, Veriluma, is seeking to “encode the mindset” of senior lawyers as part of the pilot program. Prescriptive

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How Boies Schiller Became A Legal Success Story

Headlining, Law Firms / March 13, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”95837″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Boies Schiller’s success is due to a variety of factors, not the least being the firm’s ability to not just capitalize upon its star principal David Boies, but also to a formula that has projected the firm into the legal stratosphere. The firm’s co-founder and managing partner Jonathan Schiller was interviewed by

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“Fired!” – Preet Bharara’s Final Statement

Headlining / March 11, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Preet Bharara, one of the highest profiles of the US Attorneys fired by President Trump and an outspoken prosecutor who has worked hard to help eradicate corruption. A New York federal prosecutor, he refused to stand down as one of the 46 US attorneys who Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought to fire and who

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3 Ways You Can Love Your Life – And Your Law Job

Lawyers / March 10, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Getting into a happy situation with your law job is easier said than done – deadlines, anxious clients, billing targets – and getting some undersanding of quite how that can be accomplished is no easy feat. The Lawyer’s “systemic coach”, Zita Tulyahikayo and QC James Pereira run their ‘Loving Legal Life’ series who discussed

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Manhattan Personal Injury Attorney Charged With Tax Evasion

Law Firms / March 9, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kathy Enstrom, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced today that HERBERT LINDENBAUM, a Manhattan personal injury and medical malpractice attorney, voluntarily surrendered today in Manhattan federal court. LINDENBAUM

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Tweeting Trump’s Wiretap Woes Lead to the “I” Word – Again

Headlining / March 8, 2017

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1488965131109{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1488965681830{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”] Former Nixon lawyer John Dean is once again on Trump Attack, saying the President is “way off base” after his Obama wiretap claim. The former counsel, who said President Trump faced calamity following his firing of

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London’s Big Law ‘Fintech Footprint’ Expands

Headlining, Law Firms, UK Law / March 8, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Big Name law firms are working to woo work from London’s fintech startups in the hope of building valuable business from the fast-growing sector. Fintech is likely to provide major disruption to the banking arena, but that digital disruption has not always been accompanied by a detailed legal analysis of the implications, which is

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